- 1. Gregor Mendel is known as the father of what field of study?
A) Astronomy
B) Genetics
C) Physics
D) Botany
- 2. In what year did Gregor Mendel publish his work on genetics?
A) 1800
B) 2000
C) 1900
D) 1866
- 3. What term is used to describe the unit of heredity Mendel studied?
A) Nucleus
B) Chromosome
C) Protein
D) Gene
- 4. What is the term for an organism's genetic makeup?
A) Genotype
B) Phenotype
C) Heredity
D) Mutation
- 5. In a monohybrid cross, how many traits are typically studied?
A) One
B) Three
C) Four
D) Two
- 6. What term describes the appearance of an organism resulting from its genotype?
A) Phenotype
B) Genotype
C) Mutation
D) Heredity
- 7. In Mendel's experiments, what term describes the offspring resulting from a cross between the parental generations?
A) P generation
B) F1 generation
C) F2 generation
D) G1 generation
- 8. Mendel's Law of Segregation describes the separation of ________ during the formation of gametes.
A) Genes
B) Alleles
C) Chromosomes
D) Traits
- 9. Which of the following describes a genotype with two different alleles for a gene?
A) Homozygous
B) Dominant
C) Recessive
D) Heterozygous
- 10. Mendel demonstrated that traits are inherited independently during which of his experiments?
A) Monohybrid cross
B) Backcross
C) Test cross
D) Dihybrid cross
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